HUNTING PRINTS
Ruffled Grouse. Circa 1910
American Game-Bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell. Published in 1910.
We picked up this book at an antiquarian bookstore in Nashville, TN primarily because of the included color plate prints of the Bobwhite (Quail) in Potato Field and the Ruffled Grouse.
The author of American Game Bird, Robert Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849. When he was about eight years old, his family moved to Audubon Park in Manhattan, where the widow of John James Audubon ran a small elementary school, which the young George attended. This childhood contact with the Audubon’s kindled a lifelong interest in natural history and conservation.
In 1880, he took over the editorship of Field and Stream, a sporting publication that, under Grinnell's leadership, became the leading voice for conservation of big game and wild land in America. In 1881, he took up the fight to preserve the remnants of the bison and, in 1882, began a campaign to protect Yellowstone's wildlife that ended with the passage of the Yellowstone Park Protection Act in 1894. At about the same time, Grinnell began a drive to end spring shooting of waterfowl, an effort that culminated in the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918.
In 1884, Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt co-founded the Boone and Crockett Club due to their mutual interest of hunting, fishing and conservation.
In 1886, Grinnell organized the National Audubon Society. Inspired by Grinnell's strong views on the sale of wild game and plumes, his close friend, John Lacey, introduced a bill that supported state game laws by making the interstate shipment of illegally killed game a violation of federal statute. The Lacey Act is still a crucial part of American conservation.
Grinnell was stalwart in the struggle to protect the nation's forests, advocating government system of forest conservation as early as 1883, an idea that led to the establishment of our national forests. He championed the effort that created Glacier National Park Mt Grinnell in Glacier is named after him).
When he died in 1938, The New York Times remembered him as the Father of American Conservation.
An original 1910 edition of the book American Game-Bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell can be found in the Buffalo River Co library.
We have archivally scanned the Bobwhite and Grouse color prints found in the book. Our digital archivist has lightly restored and enhanced the images in preparation for printing your Giclee print order. We print the entire image as it was created many years ago. That means we also reproduce the artworks aged patina, subtle imperfections, and signs of aging.
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